Mathias Menanteau, a French violin maker, works on the body of a cello in his workshop in Rome. After studying and working in England and Germany, Menanteau set up shop in Italy where he builds and restores instruments for notorious musicians.

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A woman releases sparrows as an offering in mourning Cambodia’s former King Norodom Sihanouk in Phnom Penh.

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Activists from the group Animal Naturalis sprawl across the plaza at the Revolution Esplanade Monument in Mexico City to protest bullfighting.

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An Afghan woman begs for alms in the snow as she sits on a slush-filled road in Kabul.

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A Venezuelan soldier, his face painted with the colors of the national flag, attends a military parade in Caracas commemorating the 21st anniversary of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s attempted coup d’etat.

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Syrian man carries his sister to safety after a government airstrike hit their neighborhood in Aleppo, Syria.

A clergyman prays during an early morning mass at the historic al-Muharraq Monastery, a centuries-old site in the province of Assiut, Egypt.

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Vancouver’s Alex Burrows cracks Edmonton goalie Devan Dubnyk in the mask while trying to tip the puck into the net during what would turn out to be a 3-2 Canucks win in overtime.

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A Palestinian boy cries over the remains of his family’s home, demolished by the municipality in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina.

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The Ravens’ Torrey Smith hoists the Vince Lombardi Trophy as he and teammates ride in their Super Bowl victory parade through Baltimore.

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Researcher Bertolt Meyer, the model for the world’s first “bionic man,” Rex, poses with the humanoid at the Science Museum in London. Rex boasts prosthetic limbs, a functional artificial circulatory system, an artificial pancreas, kidney, spleen and trachea.

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Indian Hindu devotees walk through a dust storm at the Sangam in Allahabad, where celebrations of the Maha Kumbh festival continue.

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US skiier Lindsey Vonn is airlifted over Schladming, Austria, after crashing during the women’s Super G race at the World Alpine Skiing Championships.

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A hawker waits for customers from his perch atop the Great Wall of China in Mutianyu.

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A group of kindergarteners pour cold water on themselves during fitness classes at a school in Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, where the air temperature sits at about 9.4 degrees Fahrenheit below zero.

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An employee inspects sculptures, one of them (left) depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at a factory that manufactures floats for the annual Purim parade in Holon.

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Lanterns brighten up a gloomy, polluted evening in Chongqing, China, ahead of Chinese new year celebrations.

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A newly released NASA photo shows the Orion nebula as captured by the space program’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.

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People clambor for a bag of oranges as Greek farmers distributed more than 50 tons of free fruit and vegetables outside the Agriculture Ministry in Athens as a protest against high fuel and production costs.

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Protestors show their disdain for cutbacks in education in Barcelona, Spain.

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A man tries to extinguish a fire from a balcony in a burning building in Damascus hit by a Syrian Army mortar shell.

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A child seems perplexed by the bare-bottomed Hindu holy men parading past during the Maha Kumbh festival in Allahabad, India.

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Members of The Flying Bulls aerobatics team from the Czech Republic fly in formation in their Zlin Z-50s over the Yelahanka Air Force station in Bangalore, India

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A student activist binds the eyes of a statue depicting participants in Bangladesh’s war for independence amid rallies demanding death for Abdul Quader Mollah. A war crimes tribunal sentenced him to life imprisonment for numerous offenses during the 1971 war.

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Members of Honourable Artillery Company fire a 62-gun salute at the Tower of London in honor of the 61st anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II’s accession to the throne.

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A model — maybe looking to catch a few snowflakes — sticks out her tongue while showing off a creation from the Degen collection on the first day of New York Fashion Week.

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A demonstrator smashes through a glass wall at a tram stop in Strasbourg, France, during protests by European steel workers near the European Parliament.